Judges 10:9-18

⁹in so much that the sons of Ammon, when they had passed over Jordan, wasted Judah, and Benjamin, and Ephraim; and Israel was tormented greatly.

¹⁰And they cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned to thee, for we forsook our God, and served Baalim.

¹¹To whom the Lord said, Whether not the Egyptians, and Amorites, and the sons of Ammon, and Philistines,

¹²and Sidonians, and Amalek, and Canaan or Maonites, have oppressed you, and ye cried to me, and I delivered you from their hands?

¹³And nevertheless ye have forsaken me, and worshipped alien gods; there-fore I shall not add to, that I deliver you any more.

¹⁴Go ye, and call the gods which ye have chosen; deliver they you in the time of anguish.

¹⁵And the sons of Israel said to the Lord, We have sinned; yield thou to us whatever thing pleaseth to thee; only deliver us now.

¹⁶And they said these things, and casted forth from their coasts all the idols of alien gods, and served the Lord; which had ruth, either compassion, on the wretchednesses of them.

¹⁷And so the sons of Ammon cried together, each moving other to battle against Israel, and setted tents in Gilead, and the sons of Israel were gathered against them, and setted tents in Mizpeh.

¹⁸And the princes of Gilead said each to his neighbours, He, that beginneth first of us to fight against the sons of Ammon, shall be duke of the people of Gilead.